GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EXOC Infin8 Black Edition
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ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 AMP Extreme+

The GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EXOC Infin8 Black Edition has 1664 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.33 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.42 TFLOPS.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 AMP Extreme+ has 2560 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.91 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 9.78 TFLOPS.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EXOC Infin8 Black Edition is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 13 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 AMP Extreme+ is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 20 execution units.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EXOC Infin8 Black Edition is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 AMP Extreme+ has a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.400GHz.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EXOC Infin8 Black Edition has a turbo clock of 1.329 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 AMP Extreme+ is 1.911 GHz.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EXOC Infin8 Black Edition has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 98 °C.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 AMP Extreme+ is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 94 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EXOC Infin8 Black Edition are cooled with a Air cooling.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 AMP Extreme+ is cooled by a Air cooling.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EXOC Infin8 Black Edition supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 AMP Extreme+ supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EXOC Infin8 Black Edition supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 AMP Extreme+ supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EXOC Infin8 Black Edition is 41 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 AMP Extreme+ is 41 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EXOC Infin8 Black Edition was released in Q4/2014.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 AMP Extreme+ published in Q2/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.